Fieldbus devices require far more attention in their initial setup and commissioning than their analog…
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Abdelaziz, Ahmed (June 2014) Identified numerous typographical errors throughout the book, mostly repeated…
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There is much to be said for neatness of assembly in electrical signal wiring. Even though the electrons…
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In order to provide an interface between the internal (digital) world of a computer and the external (analog)…
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A design-based fortification is one rooted in technical details of system architecture and functionality. Some…
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Process measurements are often of an analog nature: the temperature of a furnace, the rate of fluid flow…
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Light has long been used as a long-range signaling medium. While communication by light through open air is…
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Every programmable logic controller must have some means of receiving and interpreting signals from real-world…
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Many years ago, when I was first learning about electricity, I happened to discover a length of coaxial…
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Developed by the Modicon company (the original manufacturer of the Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC) in…
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In a manually-controlled process, a human operator directly actuates some form of final control element…
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In the United States, the ANSI and IEEE organizations have standardized a set of numerical codes referring to…
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Like so many other industrial data networks, FOUNDATION Fieldbus is an “unswitched” or…
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An engineer named Bob Metcalfe conceived the idea of Ethernet in 1973, while working for the Xerox research…
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Feedback obtained from industrial users of FF reveal a common pattern: Fieldbus is a powerful and reliable…
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“Radio” systems use electromagnetic fields to communicate information over long distances through…
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These fortifications focus on human behavior rather than system design or component selection. In some ways…
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Developed by the Modicon company (the original manufacturer of the Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC) in…
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In a manually-controlled process, a human operator directly actuates some form of final control element…
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An exciting development in industrial instrumentation is the WirelessHART radio communication standard,…
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Many years ago, when I was first learning about electricity, I happened to discover a length of coaxial…
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In order to provide an interface between the internal (digital) world of a computer and the external (analog)…
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At the next OSI Reference Model layer (layer 4) is a set of protocols specifying how reliable communication…
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Every programmable logic controller must have some means of receiving and interpreting signals from real-world…
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Programmable logic controllers are essentially nothing more than special-purpose, industrial computers. As…
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One of the great benefits of digital technology is the ability to communicate vast amounts of information over…
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A design-based fortification is one rooted in technical details of system architecture and functionality. Some…
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I remember first learning about the world-wide Internet, and wondering what it actually looked like. The first…
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Light has long been used as a long-range signaling medium. While communication by light through open air is…
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Modern DC and AC motor drives provide features useful when using electric motors as final control elements.…
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Pipe is a hollow structure designed to provide an enclosed pathway for fluids to flow, usually manufactured…
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As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, instrumentation safety may be broadly divided into two…
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Imagine a major marathon race, where hundreds of runners gather in one place to compete. When the starting gun…
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The vast majority of PID controllers in service today are digital in nature. Microprocessors executing PID…
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Cyber-security seems to have its own vocabulary, ranging from unwieldy technical acronyms to slang terms…
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To summarize some of the key points and concepts for teaching: Do not waste class time transmitting facts to…
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In modern industry, the most popular form of field-level signal transmission for variable industrial…
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A completely different way of measuring liquid level in vessels is to bounce a traveling wave off the surface…
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A laser is a light source emitting waves of light that not only share the exact same frequency (color)…
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Self-balancing mechanisms consisting solely of a baffle/nozzle detector coupled to a feedback bellows, while…
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Converting between disparate units of measurement is the bane of many science students. The problem is worse…
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In reliability engineering, it is important to be able to quantity the reliability (or conversely, the…
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As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, instrumentation safety may be broadly divided into two…
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Capacitive level instruments measure electrical capacitance of a conductive rod inserted vertically into a…
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Cyber-security seems to have its own vocabulary, ranging from unwieldy technical acronyms to slang terms…
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Several different technologies exist for the conversion of fluid pressure into an electrical signal response.…
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Much has been written about the benefits of robust PID control. Increased productivity, decreased equipment…
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While the term “probability” may evoke images of imprecision, probability is in fact an exact…
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Much of our knowledge about atomic structure comes from experimental data relating the interaction between…
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One of the marks of a successful problem-solver is a habit of applying general principles to every new problem…
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A level switch is one detecting the level of liquid or solid (granules or powder) in a vessel. Level switches…
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“Feedforward” is a rather under-used control strategy capable of managing a great many types of…
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A control strategy similar to ratio control is relation control. This is similar to ratio control in that a…
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Any physical location in an industrial facility harboring the potential of explosion due to the presence of…
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